Jason Euell
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Jason Joseph Euell is a Jamaica
n-English
football player who plays for Charlton Athletic
. He can play as either a forward or a midfielder
. He has also been capped
three times by Jamaica
.
He has spent much of his career playing in the Premier League, with all but one season between 1995 and 2007 in the top flight — firstly with Wimbledon, where he spent six years, including one season in the First Division, then Charlton Athletic
for five years, before a season with Middlesbrough
.
He then dropped to the second tier of football in England
, initially with Southampton
, where he spent two years, before his move to Blackpool
in 2009, where he was part of the team which won promotion to the Premier League. In 2011, he rejoined Charlton Athletic - by now in League One - for a second spell.
, London
, Euell rose through the ranks at the Wimbledon youth academy
. After scoring on his debut in October 1995 against Southampton
as an 18 year old, he went on to make further a further eight Premier League appearances, and scored one more goal, in the 1995–96 season. The following season he made a total of eight appearances, scoring two goals. In 1997–98 he began playing more regularly, making a total of 23 appearances, scoring eight goals, including three goals in three FA Cup games.
He established himself as a regular first team player in the 1998–99 season, making a total of 43 appearances, including 33 in the league and scoring ten goals. The following season he made a total of 45 appearances, scoring five goals. However, the Dons finished in 18th place and so were relegated to the First Division
.
He spent the 2000–01 season with Wimbledon in the First Division and scored 19 goals in 36 league games, his highest season tally of goals.
Euell made a total of 181 appearances, scoring 47 goals in six years with the Dons.
signed him for a club record fee of £4.75 million, bringing him back to the Premier League. He made his debut on 18 August in a 2–1 home defeat to Everton
. His first goal for the Addicks came in the third round of the League Cup
on 9 October in a 1–0 win over West Bromwich Albion
at the Hawthorns
. His first league goal came on 20 October in a 1–1 draw with Derby County
at Pride Park
.
On 19 November Euell scored a first half brace in a 4–4 home draw with West Ham United
. He scored both goals in a 2–1 home win over Chelsea
on 2 March 2002. In the 2001–02 season he made a total of 40 appearances, scoring 13 goals as the Addicks finished in 14th place in the Premier League.
In his first three seasons with the Addicks Euell was top scorer. However, in the 2004–05 season he scored only twice and just once in 2005–06, after he missed much of the season with a shoulder injury, and then failed to get back into the first team. In five years at the club Euell made a total of 155 appearances, scoring 37 goals.
on 31 August 2006 for £300,000. His first game in a Boro shirt was a 1–1 draw with Arsenal
on 9 September 2006 at the Emirates Stadium
. Euell set up James Morrision
to give Middlesbrough a 1–0 lead before Thierry Henry
equalized. However, his stay at the Riverside Stadium
lasted just one season, during which he made a total of 20 appearances, but failing to score. He started the 2007–08 season with Boro. However, after not figuring in manager Gareth Southgate
's plans, his contract with the club was cancelled in late August 2007.
club Southampton
on a free transfer. He made his Saints debut the folloing day as a 64th minute substitute for Andrew Surman
in a 3–0 win over Queens Park Rangers
at Loftus Road
. His first goal came in his eighth Saints appearance, when he scored the second goal in a 3–2 win over Burnley
at Turf Moor
on 27 October. He made a total of 41 appearances in the 2007–08 season scoring three goals, as the club finished just two points above the relegation places in 20th on 54 points.
In the 2008–09 season
Euell made 24 appearances, scoring two goals, both of which came in a 3–0 win over Ipswich Town
at Portman Road
on 3 March 2009. Southampton finished second bottom of the Championship in 23rd and were relegated to League One
.
Euell made a total of 65 appearances in two seasons with the Saints, scoring five goals.
. Two days later he signed a one-year contract with an option for a further twelve months with the Seasiders. Of the move Euell said, "I had a meeting with Ian Holloway
last week and it was a good, funny chat to discuss football as well as other things. It swayed for me to want to be here and be part of what Ian's trying to achieve in moving the club forward and I want to be part of that."
On 8 August he made his debut, and captained the team, as the Seasiders started the 2009–10 season with a 1–1 draw with Queens Park Rangers
at Loftus Road
. His first goal came in the Seasiders 2–1 win over Newcastle united
at Bloomfield Road
on 16 September.
During a League Cup
match between Blackpool and Stoke City
at the Britannia Stadium
on 22 September, Euell, who at the time was sat on the substitutes bench, was racially abused by a Stoke fan, who was ejected from the stadium and subsequently arrested by Staffordshire Police
, before being released pending inquiries. Euell confronted the supporter that was taunting him. Blackpool manager Ian Holloway
, who had to restrain Euell, was furious in his post-match interview, saying: "We are human beings and Jason is a footballer. The colour of his skin shouldn't matter. It was disgusting. The stewards believed what Jason said, got the bloke out and I hope he is banned for life. (He is) an absolute disgrace of a human being. I thought those days had gone. Jason was just sat in the dugout at the time. I saw his reaction and I had to calm him down. It's absolutely disgraceful." While Euell later said: "It did hurt. I felt I had to stand up for all colours and creeds and show that we won't accept it. I'm proud that I made a stand. It was a shock to hear what came out of the guy's mouth. Racism in football is not dead and buried but it's still a shock to hear that kind of thing in close proximity. There were people near the idiot who didn't agree with it, but there were others who turned a blind eye, which was disappointing." Euell received an official apology from Stoke City, who confirmed that they would "impose the toughest possible sanctions" on the supporter accused of racial abuse.
In the wake of the incident, Tottenham Hotspur
manager Harry Redknapp
called for fans who racially abuse players to be imprisoned, saying: "That is disgusting – there's no place for that in the game. Surely we can't have that sort of behaviour now? Anyone who does it should be put in prison – not banned from football. Stick them where they belong, in the nut-house. It's wrong." On 5 October, a 47-year-old man was charged with a racially aggravated public order offence and bailed to appear in court in Stoke-on-Trent
on 13 October, when the case was adjourned until 10 November. On 25 November the fan, Robert Mason, said to suffer "from a schizo-affective disorder", admitted making a racist comment. He was given a three-year order banning him from all football grounds in the United Kingdom
and fined £170.
Euell was a 76th minute substitute in Blackpool
's debut Premier League match, a 4–0 win over Wigan Athletic
at the DW Stadium on 14 August 2010.
He joined Doncaster Rovers
on loan for a month from 18 February 2011, eventually remaining until the end of the season. He scored his first goal for Doncaster against Watford, equalising in a 1–1 draw.
He was released by Blackpool at end of the 2010–11 season.
with a view to a move back to The Valley, on 10 August 2011 he rejoined Charlton on a one-year deal having impressed while on trial.
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||rowspan="5"|Premier League
||9||2||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||9||2
|-
|1996–97||7||2||colspan="2"|-||1||0||8||2
|-
|1997–98||18||4||2||1||3||3||23||8
|-
|1998–99||33||10||3||0||7||0||43||10
|-
|1999–2000||38||4||2||0||5||1||45||5
|-
|2000–01||rowspan="1"|First Division
||36||19||6||1||1||0||43||20
|-
|2001–02||rowspan="5"|Charlton Athletic
||rowspan="5"|Premier League
||36||11||2||1||2||1||40||13
|-
|2002–03||36||10||2||1||1||0||39||11
|-
|2003–04||31||10||1||0||2||0||34||10
|-
|2004–05||26||2||3||0||2||0||31||2
|-
|2005–06||10||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||11||1
|-
|2006–07||Middlesbrough
||Premier League
||17||0||2||0||1||0||20||0
|-
|2007–08||rowspan="2"|Southampton
||rowspan="2"|Championship
||38||3||3||0||colspan="2"|-||41||3
|-
|2008–09||24||2||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||24||2
|-
|2009–10
||rowspan="2"|Blackpool
||rowspan="1"|Championship
||31||4||1||0||1||0||35||4
|-
|2010–11||rowspan="1"|Premier League
||3||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||4||0
|-
|2010–11
||rowspan="1"|Doncaster Rovers
||rowspan="1"|Championship
||12||3||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||12||3
|-
|2011–12||rowspan="1"|Charlton Athletic
||rowspan="1"|League One
||2||0||0||0||1||1||2||0
|-
407||88||28||4||27||6||465||97
Notes:
a. 2 Play-off appearances for Blackpool in 2010 included in 2009–10 totals
. He was in the squad for the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship
in Malaysia. After being an unused substitute for England's opening game in Group F, a 2–1 victory over Côte d'Ivoire
on 18 June, he made his debut two days later as a 64th minute replacement for Michael Owen
in a 5–0 win over United Arab Emirates
. On 26 June he was an 81st minute substitute in England's 2–1 Round of 16 defeat to Argentina
.
Euell qualified to play for Jamaica
as his father was born there. And in July 2004, after attending a match between Jamaica
and Haiti
, Euell committed himself to play for the Jamaican national team, saying, "The last few weeks have really made me want to play for Jamaica. There is a World Cup
to play for and it would just be amazing to be part of a tournament like that."
His debut came in the Reggae Boyz' final group game in their CONCACAF third stage qualification
for the 2006 World Cup finals. Euell came on as a 71st minute substitute in a 1–1 draw with the United States
, a result which meant Jamaica were knocked out of the competition.
On 1 June 2006 he scored in a 1–4 friendly defeat to Ghana
at the Walkers Stadium
, Leicester
. That year he also played in a 0–6 friendly defeat to England
.
He went on to make a total of three appearances for Jamaica, scoring one goal, from 2004 to 2006.
in his left ear. Talking about this in 2006, he said, "It's never been an issue for me in terms of my football although, socially, it can occasionally have a bit of an impact. I think I tend to be a bit more aware of what's going on around me on the football pitch because I am deaf in one ear. Maybe that's led to some of my other senses becoming heightened a bit. It hasn't stopped me from doing anything at all on the football pitch. It didn't stop me developing as a youngster and I'm sure it won't stop me continuing to develop in the future."
In September 2010 Euell became an ambassador for Kick It Out
, saying: "If people can see that there are organisations out there, like Kick It Out, that can raise awareness of what needs to be done to stop racism up and down the country it will only help eradicate it from daily life. Football is a major sport in this country, so it's a good association to try and help but communities also play an important role."
Euell is also an honorary patron of the Show Racism the Red Card
organisation.
Euell is also an embassador for a project called 'National Deaf Awareness In Sport Alliance'.
In January 2011, Euell declared himself bankrupt after being a victim of fraud
.
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
n-English
England
England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental...
football player who plays for Charlton Athletic
Charlton Athletic F.C.
Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, in the London Borough of Greenwich. They compete in Football League One, the third tier of English football. The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area,...
. He can play as either a forward or a midfielder
Midfielder
A midfielder is an association football position. Some midfielders play a more defensive role, while others blur the boundaries between midfielders and forwards. The number of midfielders a team uses during a match may vary, depending on the team's formation and each individual player's role...
. He has also been capped
Cap (sport)
In sports, a cap is a metaphorical term for a player's appearance on a select team, such as a national team. The term dates from the practice in the United Kingdom of awarding a cap to every player in an international match of association football...
three times by Jamaica
Jamaica national football team
The Jamaica national football team is the national team of Jamaica and is controlled by the Jamaica Football Federation. After decades in CONCACAF obscurity, they gained many fans throughout the world after they qualified for the 1998 FIFA World Cup...
.
He has spent much of his career playing in the Premier League, with all but one season between 1995 and 2007 in the top flight — firstly with Wimbledon, where he spent six years, including one season in the First Division, then Charlton Athletic
Charlton Athletic F.C.
Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, in the London Borough of Greenwich. They compete in Football League One, the third tier of English football. The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area,...
for five years, before a season with Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough F.C.
Middlesbrough Football Club , also known as Boro, are an English football club based in Middlesbrough, who play in the Football League Championship. Formed in 1876, they have played at the Riverside Stadium since August 1995, their third ground since turning professional in 1889...
.
He then dropped to the second tier of football in England
Football in England
Association football is a national sport in England, where the first modern set of rules for the code were established in 1863, which were a major influence on the development of the modern Laws of the Game...
, initially with Southampton
Southampton F.C.
Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club...
, where he spent two years, before his move to Blackpool
Blackpool F.C.
Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...
in 2009, where he was part of the team which won promotion to the Premier League. In 2011, he rejoined Charlton Athletic - by now in League One - for a second spell.
Wimbledon
Born in LambethLambeth
Lambeth is a district of south London, England, and part of the London Borough of Lambeth. It is situated southeast of Charing Cross.-Toponymy:...
, London
London
London is the capital city of :England and the :United Kingdom, the largest metropolitan area in the United Kingdom, and the largest urban zone in the European Union by most measures. Located on the River Thames, London has been a major settlement for two millennia, its history going back to its...
, Euell rose through the ranks at the Wimbledon youth academy
Youth system
Youth system is a sporting terminology used to refer to a youth investment program within a particular team or league, which develops and nurtures young talent in farm teams, with the vision of using them in the first team if they show enough promise, and to fill up squads numbers in some teams...
. After scoring on his debut in October 1995 against Southampton
Southampton F.C.
Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club...
as an 18 year old, he went on to make further a further eight Premier League appearances, and scored one more goal, in the 1995–96 season. The following season he made a total of eight appearances, scoring two goals. In 1997–98 he began playing more regularly, making a total of 23 appearances, scoring eight goals, including three goals in three FA Cup games.
He established himself as a regular first team player in the 1998–99 season, making a total of 43 appearances, including 33 in the league and scoring ten goals. The following season he made a total of 45 appearances, scoring five goals. However, the Dons finished in 18th place and so were relegated to the First Division
Football League First Division
The First Division was a division of The Football League between 1888 and 2004 and the highest division in English football until the creation of the Premier League in 1992. The secondary tier in English football has since become known as the Championship....
.
He spent the 2000–01 season with Wimbledon in the First Division and scored 19 goals in 36 league games, his highest season tally of goals.
Euell made a total of 181 appearances, scoring 47 goals in six years with the Dons.
Charlton Athletic
In July 2001, Charlton AthleticCharlton Athletic F.C.
Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, in the London Borough of Greenwich. They compete in Football League One, the third tier of English football. The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area,...
signed him for a club record fee of £4.75 million, bringing him back to the Premier League. He made his debut on 18 August in a 2–1 home defeat to Everton
Everton F.C.
Everton Football Club are an English professional association football club from the city of Liverpool. The club competes in the Premier League, the highest level of English football...
. His first goal for the Addicks came in the third round of the League Cup
Football League Cup
The Football League Cup, commonly known as the League Cup or, from current sponsorship, the Carling Cup, is an English association football competition. Like the FA Cup, it is played on a knockout basis...
on 9 October in a 1–0 win over West Bromwich Albion
West Bromwich Albion F.C.
West Bromwich Albion Football Club, also known as West Brom, The Baggies, The Throstles, Albion or WBA, are an English Premier League association football club based in West Bromwich in the West Midlands...
at the Hawthorns
The Hawthorns
The Hawthorns is an all-seater football stadium in West Bromwich, Sandwell, England, with a capacity of 26,484. It has been the home of West Bromwich Albion F.C. since 1900, when it became the sixth ground to be used by the club. The ground was the last Football League ground to be built in the...
. His first league goal came on 20 October in a 1–1 draw with Derby County
Derby County F.C.
Derby County Football Club is an English football based in Derby. the club play in the Football League Championship and is notable as being one of the twelve founder members of the Football League in 1888 and is, therefore, one of only ten clubs to have competed in every season of the English...
at Pride Park
Pride Park Stadium
Pride Park Stadium is an all-seater football stadium located on the Pride Park business park on the outskirts of Derby, England. It is the current home of Football League Championship club Derby County, who moved to the stadium from the Baseball Ground upon its opening in 1997...
.
On 19 November Euell scored a first half brace in a 4–4 home draw with West Ham United
West Ham United F.C.
West Ham United Football Club is an English professional football club based in Upton Park, Newham, East London. They play in The Football League Championship. The club was founded in 1895 as Thames Ironworks FC and reformed in 1900 as West Ham United. In 1904 the club relocated to their current...
. He scored both goals in a 2–1 home win over Chelsea
Chelsea F.C.
Chelsea Football Club are an English football club based in West London. Founded in 1905, they play in the Premier League and have spent most of their history in the top tier of English football. Chelsea have been English champions four times, FA Cup winners six times and League Cup winners four...
on 2 March 2002. In the 2001–02 season he made a total of 40 appearances, scoring 13 goals as the Addicks finished in 14th place in the Premier League.
In his first three seasons with the Addicks Euell was top scorer. However, in the 2004–05 season he scored only twice and just once in 2005–06, after he missed much of the season with a shoulder injury, and then failed to get back into the first team. In five years at the club Euell made a total of 155 appearances, scoring 37 goals.
Middlesbrough
Euell joined MiddlesbroughMiddlesbrough F.C.
Middlesbrough Football Club , also known as Boro, are an English football club based in Middlesbrough, who play in the Football League Championship. Formed in 1876, they have played at the Riverside Stadium since August 1995, their third ground since turning professional in 1889...
on 31 August 2006 for £300,000. His first game in a Boro shirt was a 1–1 draw with Arsenal
Arsenal F.C.
Arsenal Football Club is a professional English Premier League football club based in North London. One of the most successful clubs in English football, it has won 13 First Division and Premier League titles and 10 FA Cups...
on 9 September 2006 at the Emirates Stadium
Emirates Stadium
Ashburton Grove, currently known as the Emirates Stadium, is a UEFA elite football stadium which is home to Arsenal FC, where they moved from Highbury in 2006. It has an current capacity of 60,361, and there have been rumours of an expansion...
. Euell set up James Morrision
James Morrison (footballer)
James Clark Morrison is a Scottish international footballer who currently plays for West Bromwich Albion. His ability to run with the ball at pace makes him an effective option through the middle, as an attacking midfielder, or more often as a right winger...
to give Middlesbrough a 1–0 lead before Thierry Henry
Thierry Henry
Thierry Daniel Henry is a French professional footballer who plays for the New York Red Bulls in Major League Soccer.Henry was born in Les Ulis, Essonne where he played for an array of local sides as a youngster and showed great promise as a goal-scorer. He was spotted by AS Monaco in 1990 and...
equalized. However, his stay at the Riverside Stadium
Riverside Stadium
The Riverside Stadium is a football stadium in Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire, England, which has been the home of Middlesbrough F.C. since it opened in 1995...
lasted just one season, during which he made a total of 20 appearances, but failing to score. He started the 2007–08 season with Boro. However, after not figuring in manager Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate
Gareth Southgate in Crawley, West Sussex is a retired English footballer and ex-manager. He is known as the "Penalty Misser of '96." He served as manager of Middlesbrough from June 2006, until he was dismissed in October 2009...
's plans, his contract with the club was cancelled in late August 2007.
Southampton
On 31 August 2007 Euell moved to ChampionshipFootball League Championship
The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...
club Southampton
Southampton F.C.
Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club...
on a free transfer. He made his Saints debut the folloing day as a 64th minute substitute for Andrew Surman
Andrew Surman
Andrew Ronald Edward Surman is a South African-born English footballer who plays as a midfielder for Norwich City. He spent the first five years of his career with Southampton where he played more than 100 games and has also played for Wolverhampton Wanderers and loan spells at Walsall and...
in a 3–0 win over Queens Park Rangers
Queens Park Rangers F.C.
Queens Park Rangers Football Club is an English professional football club, based in White City, Hammersmith and Fulham, west London. As the 2010-11 Football League Championship champions, they now play in the top tier of English football the Premier League, for the first time in 15 years...
at Loftus Road
Loftus Road
Loftus Road is a football stadium in Shepherd's Bush, London. It is home to the English football team Queens Park Rangers of the Premier League and has a capacity of around 18,500. The four stands are called the Loftus Road End , Ellerslie Road Stand, South Africa Road Stand and the School End,...
. His first goal came in his eighth Saints appearance, when he scored the second goal in a 3–2 win over Burnley
Burnley F.C.
Burnley Football Club are a professional English Football League club based in Burnley, Lancashire. Nicknamed the Clarets, due to the dominant colour of their home shirts, they were founder members of the Football League in 1888...
at Turf Moor
Turf Moor
Turf Moor is a football stadium in Burnley, Lancashire. It is the home ground of Burnley Football Club, which has played there since moving from its Calder Vale ground in 1883. The stadium, which is situated on Harry Potts Way, named so after the club's longest serving Manager, has a capacity of...
on 27 October. He made a total of 41 appearances in the 2007–08 season scoring three goals, as the club finished just two points above the relegation places in 20th on 54 points.
In the 2008–09 season
2008–09 in English football
The 2008–09 season was the 129th season of competitive football in England.-Overview:* West Bromwich Albion, Stoke City and Hull City were all playing in the Premier League after winning promotion from the Championship last season. Stoke returned to the top flight after a 23-year absence, while...
Euell made 24 appearances, scoring two goals, both of which came in a 3–0 win over Ipswich Town
Ipswich Town F.C.
Ipswich Town Football Club are an English professional football team based in Ipswich, Suffolk. As of 2011, they play in the Football League Championship, having last appeared in the Premier League in 2001–02....
at Portman Road
Portman Road
Portman Road is an association football stadium in Ipswich, Suffolk, England. It has been the home ground of Ipswich Town F.C. since 1884. The stadium has also hosted a number of England youth international matches, and one senior England friendly international match, against Croatia in 2003...
on 3 March 2009. Southampton finished second bottom of the Championship in 23rd and were relegated to League One
Football League One
Football League One is the second-highest division of The Football League and third-highest division overall in the English football league system....
.
Euell made a total of 65 appearances in two seasons with the Saints, scoring five goals.
Blackpool
It was reported on 19 July 2009 that Euell was about to sign for Championship side BlackpoolBlackpool F.C.
Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...
. Two days later he signed a one-year contract with an option for a further twelve months with the Seasiders. Of the move Euell said, "I had a meeting with Ian Holloway
Ian Holloway
Ian Scott Holloway is an English football manager and former player. He became the manager of Blackpool in May 2009. Holloway is well-known amongst football fans for his off-the-wall interviews, with a wide selection of quotes and soundbites being printed. Holloway's playing career spanned 18...
last week and it was a good, funny chat to discuss football as well as other things. It swayed for me to want to be here and be part of what Ian's trying to achieve in moving the club forward and I want to be part of that."
On 8 August he made his debut, and captained the team, as the Seasiders started the 2009–10 season with a 1–1 draw with Queens Park Rangers
Queens Park Rangers F.C.
Queens Park Rangers Football Club is an English professional football club, based in White City, Hammersmith and Fulham, west London. As the 2010-11 Football League Championship champions, they now play in the top tier of English football the Premier League, for the first time in 15 years...
at Loftus Road
Loftus Road
Loftus Road is a football stadium in Shepherd's Bush, London. It is home to the English football team Queens Park Rangers of the Premier League and has a capacity of around 18,500. The four stands are called the Loftus Road End , Ellerslie Road Stand, South Africa Road Stand and the School End,...
. His first goal came in the Seasiders 2–1 win over Newcastle united
Newcastle United F.C.
Newcastle United Football Club is an English professional association football club based in Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear. The club was founded in 1892 by the merger of Newcastle East End and Newcastle West End, and has played at its current home ground, St James' Park, since the merger...
at Bloomfield Road
Bloomfield Road
Bloomfield Road is an all-seater football stadium in the English town of Blackpool, Lancashire. It has been the permanent home of Blackpool F.C. since 1901 and is named after the road on which the stadium's main entrance used to stand. The stadium has been in a process of redevelopment since 2000...
on 16 September.
During a League Cup
2009–10 Football League Cup
The 2009–10 Football League Cup, known as the Carling Cup due to the competition's sponsorship by lager brand Carling, was the 50th season of the Football League Cup, a knock-out competition for England's top 92 football clubs....
match between Blackpool and Stoke City
Stoke City F.C.
Stoke City Football Club is an English professional football club based in Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire that plays in the Premier League. Founded in 1863, it is the oldest club in the Premier League, and considered to be the second oldest professional football club in the world, after Notts...
at the Britannia Stadium
Britannia Stadium
The Britannia Stadium is an all-seater football stadium in Stoke-on-Trent, England and the home of Premier League club Stoke City Football Club. With space for 27,598 spectators . The name is taken from the sponsors of the Stadium the Britannia Co-operative Bank...
on 22 September, Euell, who at the time was sat on the substitutes bench, was racially abused by a Stoke fan, who was ejected from the stadium and subsequently arrested by Staffordshire Police
Staffordshire Police
Staffordshire Police is the territorial police force responsible for policing Staffordshire and Stoke-on-Trent in the West Midlands of England...
, before being released pending inquiries. Euell confronted the supporter that was taunting him. Blackpool manager Ian Holloway
Ian Holloway
Ian Scott Holloway is an English football manager and former player. He became the manager of Blackpool in May 2009. Holloway is well-known amongst football fans for his off-the-wall interviews, with a wide selection of quotes and soundbites being printed. Holloway's playing career spanned 18...
, who had to restrain Euell, was furious in his post-match interview, saying: "We are human beings and Jason is a footballer. The colour of his skin shouldn't matter. It was disgusting. The stewards believed what Jason said, got the bloke out and I hope he is banned for life. (He is) an absolute disgrace of a human being. I thought those days had gone. Jason was just sat in the dugout at the time. I saw his reaction and I had to calm him down. It's absolutely disgraceful." While Euell later said: "It did hurt. I felt I had to stand up for all colours and creeds and show that we won't accept it. I'm proud that I made a stand. It was a shock to hear what came out of the guy's mouth. Racism in football is not dead and buried but it's still a shock to hear that kind of thing in close proximity. There were people near the idiot who didn't agree with it, but there were others who turned a blind eye, which was disappointing." Euell received an official apology from Stoke City, who confirmed that they would "impose the toughest possible sanctions" on the supporter accused of racial abuse.
In the wake of the incident, Tottenham Hotspur
Tottenham Hotspur F.C.
Tottenham Hotspur Football Club , commonly referred to as Spurs, is an English Premier League football club based in Tottenham, north London. The club's home stadium is White Hart Lane....
manager Harry Redknapp
Harry Redknapp
Henry James "Harry" Redknapp is a former English footballer who has enjoyed a long career in football management starting in 1983 with Bournemouth. He is the current manager of Tottenham Hotspur....
called for fans who racially abuse players to be imprisoned, saying: "That is disgusting – there's no place for that in the game. Surely we can't have that sort of behaviour now? Anyone who does it should be put in prison – not banned from football. Stick them where they belong, in the nut-house. It's wrong." On 5 October, a 47-year-old man was charged with a racially aggravated public order offence and bailed to appear in court in Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent
Stoke-on-Trent , also called The Potteries is a city in Staffordshire, England, which forms a linear conurbation almost 12 miles long, with an area of . Together with the Borough of Newcastle-under-Lyme Stoke forms The Potteries Urban Area...
on 13 October, when the case was adjourned until 10 November. On 25 November the fan, Robert Mason, said to suffer "from a schizo-affective disorder", admitted making a racist comment. He was given a three-year order banning him from all football grounds in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
and fined £170.
Euell was a 76th minute substitute in Blackpool
Blackpool F.C.
Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...
's debut Premier League match, a 4–0 win over Wigan Athletic
Wigan Athletic F.C.
Wigan Athletic Football Club is an English Premier League Association football club based in Wigan, Greater Manchester, having been promoted from the Championship in 2005. Wigan's current spell in the Premier League is the only top flight run in the club's history.They have played at the DW...
at the DW Stadium on 14 August 2010.
He joined Doncaster Rovers
Doncaster Rovers F.C.
Doncaster Rovers Football Club is an English football club, based at the Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. The team currently competes in the Football League Championship, after being promoted via the League One play-offs in 2008, and have remained there since.The club was founded in...
on loan for a month from 18 February 2011, eventually remaining until the end of the season. He scored his first goal for Doncaster against Watford, equalising in a 1–1 draw.
He was released by Blackpool at end of the 2010–11 season.
Charlton Athletic
After training with former club Charlton AthleticCharlton Athletic F.C.
Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, in the London Borough of Greenwich. They compete in Football League One, the third tier of English football. The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area,...
with a view to a move back to The Valley, on 10 August 2011 he rejoined Charlton on a one-year deal having impressed while on trial.
Club career statistics
|-|1995–96||rowspan="6"|Wimbledon
Wimbledon F.C.
Wimbledon Football Club was an English professional association football club from Wimbledon, south-west London. Founded in 1889 as Wimbledon Old Central Football Club, the club spent most of its history in amateur and semi-professional non-League football before being elected to the Football...
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|1996–97||7||2||colspan="2"|-||1||0||8||2
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|1997–98||18||4||2||1||3||3||23||8
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|1998–99||33||10||3||0||7||0||43||10
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|1999–2000||38||4||2||0||5||1||45||5
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|2000–01||rowspan="1"|First Division
Football League First Division
The First Division was a division of The Football League between 1888 and 2004 and the highest division in English football until the creation of the Premier League in 1992. The secondary tier in English football has since become known as the Championship....
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|2001–02||rowspan="5"|Charlton Athletic
Charlton Athletic F.C.
Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, in the London Borough of Greenwich. They compete in Football League One, the third tier of English football. The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area,...
||rowspan="5"|Premier League
||36||11||2||1||2||1||40||13
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|2002–03||36||10||2||1||1||0||39||11
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|2003–04||31||10||1||0||2||0||34||10
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|2004–05||26||2||3||0||2||0||31||2
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|2005–06||10||1||1||0||colspan="2"|-||11||1
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|2006–07||Middlesbrough
Middlesbrough F.C.
Middlesbrough Football Club , also known as Boro, are an English football club based in Middlesbrough, who play in the Football League Championship. Formed in 1876, they have played at the Riverside Stadium since August 1995, their third ground since turning professional in 1889...
||Premier League
||17||0||2||0||1||0||20||0
|-
|2007–08||rowspan="2"|Southampton
Southampton F.C.
Southampton Football Club is an English football team, nicknamed The Saints, based in the city of Southampton, Hampshire. The club gained promotion to the Championship from League One in the 2010–2011 season after being relegated in 2009. Their home ground is the St Mary's Stadium, where the club...
||rowspan="2"|Championship
Football League Championship
The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...
||38||3||3||0||colspan="2"|-||41||3
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|2008–09||24||2||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||24||2
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|2009–10
Blackpool F.C. season 2009–10
The 2009–10 season was Blackpool F.C.s 103rd season in the Football League. It was also their third consecutive season in The Championship, the second tier of English football. The club won promotion, via the play-offs, to the Premier League for the first time, their 28th overall season in the top...
||rowspan="2"|Blackpool
Blackpool F.C.
Blackpool Football Club are an English football club founded in 1887 from the Lancashire seaside town of Blackpool. They are competing in the 2011–12 season of the The Championship, the second tier of professional football in England, having been relegated from the Premier League at the end of the...
||rowspan="1"|Championship
Football League Championship
The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...
||31||4||1||0||1||0||35||4
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|2010–11||rowspan="1"|Premier League
||3||0||1||0||colspan="2"|-||4||0
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|2010–11
2010–11 Doncaster Rovers F.C. season
The 2010–11 season will be the 131st season in Doncaster Rovers Football Club's existence, and their 3rd consecutive year in the second tier of English football.-Pre-season:Doncaster's first pre-season friendly is an away game against local team Askern Villa...
||rowspan="1"|Doncaster Rovers
Doncaster Rovers F.C.
Doncaster Rovers Football Club is an English football club, based at the Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. The team currently competes in the Football League Championship, after being promoted via the League One play-offs in 2008, and have remained there since.The club was founded in...
||rowspan="1"|Championship
Football League Championship
The Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...
||12||3||colspan="2"|-||colspan="2"|-||12||3
|-
|2011–12||rowspan="1"|Charlton Athletic
Charlton Athletic F.C.
Charlton Athletic Football Club is an English professional football club based in Charlton, in the London Borough of Greenwich. They compete in Football League One, the third tier of English football. The club was founded on 9 June 1905, when a number of youth clubs in the southeast London area,...
||rowspan="1"|League One
Football League One
Football League One is the second-highest division of The Football League and third-highest division overall in the English football league system....
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407||88||28||4||27||6||465||97
Notes:
a. 2 Play-off appearances for Blackpool in 2010 included in 2009–10 totals
Honours
Blackpool- ChampionshipFootball League ChampionshipThe Football League Championship is the highest division of The Football League and second-highest division overall in the English football league system after the Premier League...
play-off final winner: 2009–102010 Football League Championship play-off FinalThe 2010 Football League Championship play-off Final was a football match played at Wembley Stadium in London on 22 May 2010 to decide the third team to be promoted from The Championship to the Premier League for the 2010–11 season....
International career
Euell was capped by the England under-20 teamEngland national under-20 football team
- Round of 16 :-Friendlies:-Latest squad:The following players were named in the squad for the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup running from 29 July to the 20 August 2011.-Recent call-ups:...
. He was in the squad for the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship
1997 FIFA World Youth Championship
The 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship was the 11th staging of the FIFA World Youth Championship. It was held from June 16 to July 5, 1997 in Malaysia.-Venues:-Qualification:The following 24 teams qualified for the 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship...
in Malaysia. After being an unused substitute for England's opening game in Group F, a 2–1 victory over Côte d'Ivoire
Côte d'Ivoire national football team
The Côte d'Ivoire National Football Team or Ivory Coast National Football Team, nicknamed Les Éléphants , represents Côte d'Ivoire in international football and is controlled by the Fédération Ivoirienne de Football...
on 18 June, he made his debut two days later as a 64th minute replacement for Michael Owen
Michael Owen
Michael James Owen is an English professional footballer who plays as a striker for Manchester United.The son of former footballer Terry Owen, Owen began his senior career at Liverpool in 1996. He progressed through the Liverpool youth team and scored on his debut in May 1997...
in a 5–0 win over United Arab Emirates
United Arab Emirates national football team
The United Arab Emirates national football team represents United Arab Emirates in association football and is controlled by the United Arab Emirates Football Association, the governing body for football in United Arab Emirates...
. On 26 June he was an 81st minute substitute in England's 2–1 Round of 16 defeat to Argentina
Argentina national football team
The Argentina national football team represents Argentina in association football and is controlled by the Argentine Football Association , the governing body for football in Argentina. Argentina's home stadium is Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti and their head coach is Alejandro...
.
Euell qualified to play for Jamaica
Jamaica
Jamaica is an island nation of the Greater Antilles, in length, up to in width and 10,990 square kilometres in area. It is situated in the Caribbean Sea, about south of Cuba, and west of Hispaniola, the island harbouring the nation-states Haiti and the Dominican Republic...
as his father was born there. And in July 2004, after attending a match between Jamaica
Jamaica national football team
The Jamaica national football team is the national team of Jamaica and is controlled by the Jamaica Football Federation. After decades in CONCACAF obscurity, they gained many fans throughout the world after they qualified for the 1998 FIFA World Cup...
and Haiti
Haiti national football team
The Haiti national football team represents Haiti in association football and is controlled by the Fédération Haïtienne de Football, the governing body for football in Haiti. Haiti's home ground is Stade Sylvio Cator in Port-au-Prince and their head coach is Edson Tavares...
, Euell committed himself to play for the Jamaican national team, saying, "The last few weeks have really made me want to play for Jamaica. There is a World Cup
2006 FIFA World Cup
The 2006 FIFA World Cup was the 18th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football world championship tournament. It was held from 9 June to 9 July 2006 in Germany, which won the right to host the event in July 2000. Teams representing 198 national football associations from all six...
to play for and it would just be amazing to be part of a tournament like that."
His debut came in the Reggae Boyz' final group game in their CONCACAF third stage qualification
2006 FIFA World Cup qualification - CONCACAF third stage
In the Third Round of CONCACAF, the 12 winners of the Second Round were divided in 3 groups of 4 teams each. Teams in each group would play against each other home-and-away, and the two teams with most points in each group would advance to the Fourth Round....
for the 2006 World Cup finals. Euell came on as a 71st minute substitute in a 1–1 draw with the United States
United States men's national soccer team
The United States men's national soccer team represents the United States in international association football competitions. It is controlled by the United States Soccer Federation and competes in CONCACAF...
, a result which meant Jamaica were knocked out of the competition.
On 1 June 2006 he scored in a 1–4 friendly defeat to Ghana
Ghana national football team
The Ghana national football team, popularly known as the Black Stars, is the national association football team of Ghana and is controlled by the Ghana Football Association...
at the Walkers Stadium
Walkers Stadium
The King Power Stadium is a football stadium which hosts home matches of English football club Leicester City. The all-seater stadium, inaugurated in July 2002, holds 32,500 and has the 19th largest stadium capacity in England. The stadium is named after King Power, a company owned by club owner...
, Leicester
Leicester
Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest...
. That year he also played in a 0–6 friendly defeat to England
England national football team
The England national football team represents England in association football and is controlled by the Football Association, the governing body for football in England. England is the joint oldest national football team in the world, alongside Scotland, whom they played in the world's first...
.
He went on to make a total of three appearances for Jamaica, scoring one goal, from 2004 to 2006.
International goals
As of 13 October 2009| Goal | Date | Venue | Opponent | Result | Competition | Reports |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 1 June 2006 | Walkers Stadium Walkers Stadium The King Power Stadium is a football stadium which hosts home matches of English football club Leicester City. The all-seater stadium, inaugurated in July 2002, holds 32,500 and has the 19th largest stadium capacity in England. The stadium is named after King Power, a company owned by club owner... , Leicester Leicester Leicester is a city and unitary authority in the East Midlands of England, and the county town of Leicestershire. The city lies on the River Soar and at the edge of the National Forest... , England England England is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. It shares land borders with Scotland to the north and Wales to the west; the Irish Sea is to the north west, the Celtic Sea to the south west, with the North Sea to the east and the English Channel to the south separating it from continental... |
1–4 | Friendly | ||
Personal life
Euell is deafHearing impairment
-Definition:Deafness is the inability for the ear to interpret certain or all frequencies of sound.-Environmental Situations:Deafness can be caused by environmental situations such as noise, trauma, or other ear defections...
in his left ear. Talking about this in 2006, he said, "It's never been an issue for me in terms of my football although, socially, it can occasionally have a bit of an impact. I think I tend to be a bit more aware of what's going on around me on the football pitch because I am deaf in one ear. Maybe that's led to some of my other senses becoming heightened a bit. It hasn't stopped me from doing anything at all on the football pitch. It didn't stop me developing as a youngster and I'm sure it won't stop me continuing to develop in the future."
In September 2010 Euell became an ambassador for Kick It Out
Kick It Out (organisation)
Kick It Out was established as a campaign with the brand name 'Let's Kick Racism Out of Football' in 1993 and as an organisation in 1997.The organisation works within the football, educational and community sectors to challenge discrimination, encourage inclusive practices and work for positive...
, saying: "If people can see that there are organisations out there, like Kick It Out, that can raise awareness of what needs to be done to stop racism up and down the country it will only help eradicate it from daily life. Football is a major sport in this country, so it's a good association to try and help but communities also play an important role."
Euell is also an honorary patron of the Show Racism the Red Card
Show Racism The Red Card
Show Racism the Red Card is an anti-racism education charity, established in England in January 1996 to harness the high profile nature of footballers as anti-racist role models to educate against racism throughout society in the United Kingdom....
organisation.
Euell is also an embassador for a project called 'National Deaf Awareness In Sport Alliance'.
In January 2011, Euell declared himself bankrupt after being a victim of fraud
Fraud
In criminal law, a fraud is an intentional deception made for personal gain or to damage another individual; the related adjective is fraudulent. The specific legal definition varies by legal jurisdiction. Fraud is a crime, and also a civil law violation...
.